Love

The Dance

by Rupert Brooke 1887–1915

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)

Love

As the Wind, and as the Wind,
In a corner of the way,
Goes stepping, stands twirling,
Invisibly, comes whirling,
Bows before, and skips behind,
In a grave, an endless play--

So my Heart, and so my Heart,
Following where your feet have gone,
Stirs dust of old dreams there;
He turns a toe; he gleams there,
Treading you a dance apart.
But you see not. You pass on.

✦ ✦ ✦

Dated April 1915.

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